“Gone for a Soldier” is a weekend-long event that will be filled with soldier reenactments, family activities, and the chance for visitors to experience what it was like to enlist for the Civil War. Through these experiences, visitors will learn about basic drills and to learn how the actual soldiers learned how to fight.

"And so we are seeing them transition from raw recruits as civilians who have never have shouldered a musket in anger in their lives and then transitioning into some of the best trained and most efficient fighting troops in the world at the time," says Ryan Schwartz.

Schwartz is the event coordinator for “Gone for a Soldier.” He says that the events are aiming to capture the sights and sound of the Civil War. Old World Wisconsin has always aimed to bring people from the present into the past and this event is going to capture the essence of that mission.